From: "Eric P." Date: 06/09/2004 7:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time Message-id: Maybe: http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml for your first question. Genestealers wrote: Is there a way to force...

I just installed a hard drive as a back-up drive or slave in order to help my friend get some data off of the drive. Now when I try to copy the files that are selected, 43 selected items, it says that the disk is protected. This drive is a 6 GB older drive Maxtor. He was having problems with an...

Hi, I just got a new HDD running Win98. I need to import the fonts from my old HDD on my old comuter onto my new HDD. How can I do that. When I tried it by importing new fonts in the control pannel I do not see the drive. Also I tried by sharing the fonts file but only a small part of the fonts are...

Have installed Game Net/Links 2003 but unable to play the game because Microsoft Audio Compression is not installed. Have gone through the procedure as quoted in Article 310684 i.e Start/Settings/Control Panel/Add/Remove/Windows Setup/Multimedia/Audio Compression etc. but when I am asked for...

Symptom: Defragmentation hangs between 0 and 1 % percent since app. 14 hours. System: Windows 98 Second Edition Describtion: Running the defragmentation with defrag startet from the graphical user interface hangs between 0 and 1 % since app. 14 hours. The file system was checked with scandisk...

Programs of formatting a hard disk checks its surface and excludes the damaged (unreliable) places from further use - this is written in the manual. Clearly, that if after formatting a hard disk something will be written on it, these excluded places will not be used. And will it be fair in the...

My CD-RW drive worked just fine until a few days ago. It recognized all CD- Rs and CD-RWs , but now it simply stopped working. When the drawer is opened, the light comes on, but when I insert a CD-R or CD-RW I get the message "Q is not accessible. The device is not ready." I clicked on the...

when i was using windows xp, i can access to both hard drives (C & D). Now after reformating the drive C (master drive) and reinstalling windows 98, i am unable to see 2nd hard disk (D) thru my computer or windows explorer. But when i start the computer & before windows 98 starts, it says two...

Hi, Running Windows XP (SP2) and still using Partition Magic 7.0 (with an update or two) and Drive Image 2002. No problems yet, but I realize eventually I'll need to jump to another product. I'd like to know, if possible, consensus as to best current mainstream replacement for both. I know...

I have a 80 GB HDD. I want to install windows 98 in it. Can I use FDISK command from the win 98 booting floppy ( I have read that for HDD 64GB, it does not display correct HDD size ) ? What should be the max. size of a partition that FAT32 can support ?

Cox and Telus will not act unless they have a police file number so you may as well flood microsoft.public.win98.disks.general my home Usenet group. have a nice day.Me I am nearing about TrueCrype -- If you will insist Zakariya's era inside privileges, it will well apply the press. ...

Hi, I recently got told by my OS (Windows 98) that I have a few bad/damaged clusters on my hard drive. I've run Scandisk throughly and told Scandisk to fix any errors however they're still there, I've also ran Disk Defragmenter. My PC now runs much slower than usual and startup takes a long...

Hi While using software d/loaded to my Maxtor 20 gb HD for the first time , my system crashed and I had to reboot. Now after the windows 98 flash screen comes on the system just hangs. I immediately removed the drive and booted up with another freshly reformatted drive running win 98 se. I am...

ok my older computer is windows 98 and it is messed up is there a place where i can go and try to get something to fix it. my mouse won't work when it loads up. it will work in safe mode.

I have a Sony Vaio laptop with both Windows 98 and Windows XP operating systems installed on the hard drive. How do I remove Windows 98? There is no room for additional software that I want to use with XP. -- gambo

Having problems loading Windows 98. Windows 98 starts to load then switches off. Prior to this problem I did a Quick Claen of the my computer using Mcafee QC. Not sure if this is coincidence. Also I do not have a Windows 98 disk since my PC came with Windows loaded. So I guess I can't do a...

I want to upgrade the hard drive in a win98SE machine, possibly creating multiple boot options with XP and Linux available, but my OEM-supplied CD is broken. I have a generic Win98 CD, but I don't have the drivers for my computer, and I'm unsure which drivers I'd need to redownload, and if I...

Hello, The directory tree in Windows Explorer has been renamed for some reason. I think a scandisk operation caused it. I have replaced C:\My Documents by creating a new folder and downloading my files from the server.....creating a new directory tree for my documents. I want to rename the ERROR:...

After reading a zip disk the properties function always displays the initial disks capacity even though you have an empty disk in the drive. The Microsoft Backup program thinks the disk is full and will not write to it. Is there a fix?

Hi I am putting an old i430vx system together,( I know, I must be crazy). Everything has gone ok windows 98 has loaded, no conflicts, no yellow flags. However I get an error message when trying to copy files from the floppy A. It obviously opens to show the files, but when I try to copy the file...